Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. McGruder
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 1, 1965PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
In these proceedings brought under Gr. L. c. 123A, § 6, the defendant was found to be a sexually dangerous person and was committed to the treatment center at Bridgewater for an indeterminate period of from one day to life. The case comes here on the defendant’s exceptions to certain rulings on evidence.
The rulings occurred in these circumstances. The finding that the defendant was a sexually dangerous person rested on the opinions of two psychiatrists, Dr. Newman Cohen and Dr. Daniel Weiss, called by the Commonwealth. Prior to the present commitment hearing both doctors had examined the…
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